January, 2008: The LDA publishes a review of the Lee Jasper affair, one conducted in conjunction with the prestigious auditing company Deloitte. The review rubbished most of a glut of allegations that had appeared in the Evening Standard and passed those outside its competence to the police.

July 2008: Boris Johnson's Tory Forensic Audit Panel publishes the report he commissioned on GLA and LDA spending. It claimed to have found examples of Ken Livingstone's advisers' involvement being "inappropriate and excessive" and creating "confusion", but said such interventions "did not breach any rules or protocols." (para 2.8).

March 2009: The Audit Commission produces its annual audit and inspection letter, relating to 2007/2008. This refers to past "serious governance and performance management failures" (para 10) and "poor" accounting and auditing procedures (para 22) within the LDA, but does not address issues around the influence of Mayor's advisers. The allegations that LDA money had been improperly channeled to organisations linked to Jasper or friends are still being looked at and can't be reported on due, in some cases, to continuing police investigations. But in an appendix soon to be considered by the Assembly Audit Panel the auditor criticises the GLA, saying it can't demonstrate that value for money was obtained from projects it funded that were written about by the Standard (para 12). He also identifies "omissions in the recorded declaration of required interests by the Policy Director - Equalities and Policing" (Jasper) (para 13) and other inefficiencies in the grant system, but concluded that "the amounts of the specific grants themselves are small in the overall financial context of the Authority," and that any further investigation would not be worth the cost to the tax payer (para 19).

April 2009: The LDA publishes a fully independent review of the allegations made by the Standard, conducted by the law firm DLA Piper. As the Guardian reported yesterday, this criticised Jasper's involvement in one of the many projects the Standard wrote about as "entirely inappropriate" (para 34). But it found evidence of involvement by Jasper, any of Livingstone's other policy advisers or anyone else at the GLA in just three of the 55 projects to receive LDA funding that it reviewed (para 9.2). It judges this involvement to have been "limited", and to have made no difference to the LDA's decision-making processes (para 9.3).

Meanwhile, no one has gone to jail for stealing anything. And that is the story so far of how the bad old Evening Standard's lurid 2008 election "cronyism" stories are falling apart.